Comment Re:Expect? (Score 1) 575
Replace Lord with Universe.
Same thing. Of course I'm a pantheist.
Replace Lord with Universe.
Same thing. Of course I'm a pantheist.
..if you define pain as a physiological response to damaging stimuli. Animals need that in order to survive.
The question is does their form of pain "hurt"? We'll never know that. After all, we don't even know why pain hurts for us humans; all we know is that it does indeed hurt and is not something we like to experience (unless you're masochistic).
This problem is at root a philosophical one. It's impossible to know how things are through the eyes of another. See qualia. I don't know what red looks like to you, nor do I know how a flame touching your finger feels like to you. I can guess, because we have similar physical and mental faculties, but it's still just a guess.
I wonder if I could get Haiku to work on my eee pc?
There's a pretty good chance.
Err... paging == swapping.
Need more caffeine.
I'm interested to know if Haiku will run under Parallels system virtualization, which itself runs under OSX.
I'm curious, too, if it is able to run in a full non-virtual memory, non-swapping configuration for speed and reliability.
Yep, by default (while still in pre-alpha at least) it runs without paging.
The last version of BeOS (R5) ran on 585 hardware. Haiku's main architecture is also 585. You must be thinking of BeOS R4 or older.
Give it a try, just keep in mind it is pre-alpha.
Like BeOS, Haiku is a single-user system. That said, multi-user support was kept in mind from day one. R2 will supposedly be a true multi-user system.
Haiku has drivers for both nVidia and ATI, though they're nowhere near where they should be... but they do work quite well. 3D support is provided by Mesa. I don't think 3D hardware is supported ATM.
Ethernet support is pretty damn good. I've yet to test a machine whose NIC isn't supported by Haiku. Its netstack is very very good for its alpha state, quite fast and stable.
Last time I tried, sound was pretty flaky. BUT that was before they integrated Open Sound System and all that jazz. I hear support is quite good.
But don't take my word for it; go try it out yourself.
Only God can make random selections.